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Gaming Performance Woes in XP

I'm happy to report this problem is solved. I'm not sure which thing did it, I got a new motherboard, and reinstalled windows, and fooled with my hard drive jumper all at the same time... yes, I know, poor engineering practice. Anyway, the frame rate in Half Life is now nailed to the wall at...
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- Post #17
- Sep 12, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Gaming Performance Woes in XP

Yeah, it is kind of funny when I look at it now :) I got, basically, 5 copies of XP for about 60 dollars, most of that shipping, as a result of my position and attendance at a few computer conferences (which I won't go into because I don't want to sound like a jerk), so I went directly from 98...
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- Post #15
- Sep 5, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Gaming Performance Woes in XP

I turned it off a while ago, no change. This is really start to upset me. New motherboard is in the mail, and new video card will ship as soon as the bozos get their act together :/
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- Post #13
- Sep 5, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Gaming Performance Woes in XP

Well, regardless, I've tried most of the combinations of those settings.... I think I'm going to stop fooling with it until I get some hardware replaced. If I have a new graphics card/motherboard and I'm still having issues, then I'll come back here and bother you all some more. THanks for all...
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- Post #11
- Sep 4, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Gaming Performance Woes in XP

I am using 4.42 on the 4 in 1 drivers, and have tried 3 different versions of the nvidia reference drivers, I've stuck with 40.41 for now because, you know, higher numbers are automatically better :P As to the BIOS options, I've turned off fast writes, but I must confess that I haven't really...
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- Post #9
- Sep 4, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Gaming Performance Woes in XP

I have a total of 4 fans, 2 on the PSU and 2 case fans, the processor runs at around 65-70 degrees (c). The video card fan is sounding suspect (and in fact, the card will be replaced fairly shortly), but I checked the temp on that with the utility included with the card, and it's about the same...
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- Post #7
- Sep 4, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Gaming Performance Woes in XP

My roommate just got a new computer with some PC3000 stuff in it, also from Mushkin, I threw that in there and tried it (512MB, 1 stick), and I still experienced loss of frame rates. As for timings, I'm using the detect by SPD option, it's setting the stuff at CL3, which is exactly what it's...
- Naginata
- Post #5
- Sep 4, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Gaming Performance Woes in XP

Unfortunately, I don't have the money to go buy Win2K. I'm swimming in free copies of XP thanks to some connections via my work, but I can't justify buying a new OS just to see if it might improve my games :/ Any other ideas?
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- Post #3
- Aug 31, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Gaming Performance Woes in XP

I'm getting fairly poor performance in some games, first noticed under Half-Life, and also in Grand Theft Auto 3 and other games. Basically, the game will play fine, 60+ fps, and then every once in a while, drop down to 8-10 fps for a second or so. I'm on a brand new computer, and have been...
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- Aug 30, 2002
- Replies: 16
- Forum: Computer Building

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